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Appleby, P.G., Flower, R.J., Mackay, A.W. & Rose, N.L. (1998) Palaeolimnological assessment of recent environmental change in Lake Baikal: sediment chronology. Journal of Paleolimnology 20(2): 119-133.

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Bangs, M., Battarbee, R.W., Flower, R.J., Jewson, D., Lees, J.A., Sturm, M., Vologinova, E. & Mackay, A.W. (2000) Climate change in Lake Baikal: diatom evidence in an area of continuous sedimentation. International Journal of Earth Sciences 89(2): 251-259.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005319900063

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Battarbee, R.W., Mackay, A.W., Jewson, D.H., Ryves, D.B. & Sturm, M. (2005) Differential dissolution of Lake Baikal diatoms: correction factors and implications for palaeoclimatic reconstruction. Global and Planetary Change 46: 75-86.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.11.007

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Bezrukova, E.V., Belov, A.V., Abzaeva, A.A., Letunova, P.P., Orlova, L.A., Sokolova, L.P., Kulagina, N.V. & Fisher, E.E. (2006) First high-resolution dated records of vegetation and climate changes on the Lake Baikal Northern Shore in the Middle-Late Holocene. Doklady Earth Sciences 411: 1331-1335.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X0608037X

Boyle, J.F., Mackay, A.W., Rose, N.L., Flower, R.J. & Appleby, P.G. (1998) Sediment heavy metal record in Lake Baikal: natural and anthropogenic sources. Journal of Paleolimnology 20(2): 135-150.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008051701416

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Dearing, J.A., Boyle, J.F., Appleby, P.G., Mackay, A.W. & Flower, R.J. (1998) Magnetic properties of recent sediments in Lake Baikal, Siberia. Journal of Paleolimnology 20(2): 163-173.

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Flower, R.J. (1993) A taxonomic re-evaluation of endemic Cyclotella taxa in Lake Baikal, Siberia. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 106: 203-220.

Flower, R.J. (1994) A review of current biological and recent environmental research on Lake Baikal from a British perspective. Freshwater Forum 4: 8-22.

Flower, R.J. (1998) Palaeolimnology and recent environmental change in Lake Baikal: an introduction and overview of inter-related concurrent studies. Journal of Paleolimnology 20(2): 107-117.

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Flower, R.J. (2005) A Review of Diversification Trends in Diatom Research with Reference to Taxonomy and Environmental Applications Using Examples from Lake Baikal and Elsewhere. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(11): 107-128.

Flower, R.J., Mackay, A.W., Rose, N.L., Boyle, J.F., Appleby, P.G. & Kuzmina, A.E. (1995) Sedimentary records of recent environmental change in Lake Baikal, Siberia. The Holocene 5: 323-327.

Flower, R.J., Battarbee, R.W., Lees, J., Levina, O., Jewson, D.H., Mackay, A.W., Ryves, D.B., Sturm, M. & Vologina, E.G. (1998) Diatom deposition and sediment accumulation in Lake Baikal, Siberia: on-going inter-related NERC-GEOPASS studies. Freshwater Forum 11: 16-29.

Flower, R.J., Ryves, D.B., Battarbee, R.W., Mueller, J. & Sturm, M. (1999) Lake Baikal: some topical aspects of current research. Journal of Paleolimnology 22: 223-224.

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Foged, N., Hakansson, H. & Flower, R.J. (1993) Some diatoms from Siberia especially from Lake Baikal. Diatom Research 8: 231-279.

Grygar, T., Kadlec, J., Pruner, P., Swann, G., Bezdicka, P., Hradil, D., Lang, K., Novotna , K. & Oberhänsli, H. (2006) Paleoenvironmental record in Lake Baikal sediments: environmental changes in the last 160 ky. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 237: 240-254.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.12.007

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Grygar, T., Bláhová, A., Hradil, D., Bezdicka, P., Kadlec, J., Schnabl, P., Swann, G. & Oberhänsli, H. (2007) Lake Baikal climatic record between 310 and 50 ky BP: Interplay between diatoms, watershed weathering and orbital forcing. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 250(1): 50-67.

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.001

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Kalmychkov, G.V., Kuz’min, M.I., Pokrovskii, B.G. Kostrova, S.S. (2007) Oxygen isotopic composition in diatom algae frustules from Lake Baikal sediments: annual mean temperature variations during the last 40 ka. Doklady Earth Sciences 413: 206-209.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X07020158

Lees, J.A., Flower, R.J., Ryves, D.B., Vologina, E. & Sturm, M. (1998) Identifying sedimentation patterns in Lake Baikal using whole core and surface scanning magnetic susceptibility. Journal of Paleolimnology 20(2): 187-202.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008043230549

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Lees, J.A., Flower, R.J. & Appleby, P.G. (1998) Mineral magnetic and physical properties of surficial sediments and onshore samples from the southern basin of Lake Baikal, Siberia. Journal of Paleolimnology 20(2): 175-186.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008040824614

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Mackay, A.W. (2007) The paleoclimatology of Lake Baikal: a diatom synthesis and prospectus. Earth-Science Reviews 82: 181-215.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.03.002

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Mackay, A.W., Flower, R.J., Rose, N.L., Kuzmina, A.E., Granina, L.Z., Appleby, P.G., Boyle, J.F. & Battarbee, R.W. (1998) Recent trends in diatom succession in surface sediments from Lake Baikal and their relation to atmospheric pollution and to climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 353: 1011-1055.

Mackay, A.W., Battarbee, R.W., Flower, R.J., Jewson, D., Lees, J.A., Ryves, D.B. & Sturm, M. (2000) The deposition and accumulation of endemic planktonic diatoms in the sediments of Lake Baikal and an evaluation of their potential role in climate reconstruction during the Holocene. Terra Nostra 9: 34-48.

Mackay, A.W., Flower, R.J. & Granina, L.Z. (2002) Lake Baikal. In: The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia: Russia and Neighbouring States. Ed. by M. Shahgedanova & A. Goudie. Published by OUP, Oxford. (Chapter 17) pp 403-421.

Mackay, A.W., Battarbee, R.W., Flower, R.J., Granin, N.G., Jewson, D.H., Ryves, D.B & Sturm, M. (2003) Assessing the potential for developing internal diatom-based transfer functions for Lake Baikal. Limnology and Oceanography 48(3): 1183-1192.

Mackay, A.W., Ryves, D.B., Battarbee, R.W., Flower, R.J., Jewson, D., Rioual, P. & Sturm, M. (2005) 1000 years of climate variability in central Asia: assessing the evidence using Lake Baikal (Russia) diatom assemblages and the application of a diatom-inferred model of snow cover on the lake. Global and Planetary Change 46: 281-297.

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Mackay, A.W., Ryves, D.B., Morley, D.W., Jewson, D.J. & Rioual, P. (2006) Assessing the vulnerability of endemic diatom species in Lake Baikal to predicted future climate change: a multivariate approach. Global Change Biology 12(12): 2297-2315.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01270.x

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Morley, D.W., Leng, M.J., Mackay, A.W. & Sloane, H.J. (2005) Late glacial and Holocene environmental change in the Lake Baikal region documented by oxygen isotopes from diatom silica. Global and Planetary Change 46: 221-233.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.09.018

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Oberhänsli, H. & Mackay, A.W. (2005) Introduction to ‘Progress towards reconstructing past climate in Central Eurasia, with special emphasis on Lake Baikal‘. Global and Planetary Change 46: 1-7.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.11.003

Prokopenko, A.A., Khursevich, G.K., Bezrukova, E.V., Kuzmin, M.I., Boes, X., Williams, D.F., Fedenya, S.A., Kulagina, N.V., Letunova, P.P. & Abzaeva, A.A. 2007. Paleoenvironmental proxy records from Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia, and a synthesis of Holocene climate change in the Lake Baikal watershed. Quaternary Research 68, 2-17

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Rioual, P. & Mackay, A.W. (2005) A diatom record of centennial resolution for the Kazantsevo Interglacial stage in Lake Baikal (Siberia). Global and Planetary Change 46: 199-219.

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Rose, N.L., Appleby, P.G., Boyle, J.F., Mackay, A.W. & Flower, R.J. (1998) The spatial and temporal distribution of fossil-fuel derived pollutants in the sediment record of Lake Baikal, eastern Siberia. Journal of Paleolimnology 20(2): 151-162.

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Ryves, D.B., Jewson, D.H., Sturm, M., Battarbee, R.W., Flower, R.J., Mackay, A.W. & Granin, N.G. (2003) Quantitative and qualitative relationships between planktonic diatom communities and diatom assemblages in sedimenting material and surface sediments in Lake Baikal, Siberia. Limnology and Oceanography 48(4): 1643-1662.

Swann, G.E.A. & Mackay, A.W. (2006) Potential limitations of biogenic silica as an indicator of abrupt climate change in Lake Baikal, Russia. Journal of Paleolimnology 36(1): 81-89.

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Swann, G.E.A., Mackay, A.W., Leng, M.J. & Demory, F. (2005) Climatic change in Central Asia during MIS 3/2: a case study using biological responses from Lake Baikal. Global and Planetary Change 46: 235-253.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.09.019

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Tarasov, P., Bezrukova, E., Karabanov, E., Nakagawa, T., Wagner, M., Kulagina, N., Letunova, P., Abzaeva, A., Granoszewski, W. and Riedel, F. 2007. Vegetation and climate dynamics during the Holocene and Eemian interglacials derived from Lake Baikal pollen records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 252 (3-4): 440-457.

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Todd, M.C. & Mackay, A.W. (2003) Large-scale climate controls on Lake Baikal ice cover. Journal of Climate 16: 3186-3199.